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Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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Flight Facilities announce big Dublin date and debut album

Aussie duo Flight Facilities have been working on an debut album Down To Earth and…

Album of the week: The Bug – Angels & Devils

If Kevin Martin’s last album London Zoo was a dystopian soundclash, his first full-length in…

Body & Soul stage times for Electric Picnic are here

It’s only a week to go to Electric Picnic and we now have the stage…

Listen to last night’s Nialler9 TXFM show

The Nialler9 TXFM show airs every Thursday night at 10pm for two hours. You can listen live on 105.2FM, online, the TXFM…

The Knife are no more

Um, this morning news came through that The Knife were doing their last tour. Silly…

The new Aphex Twin album is out in less than a month

As teased in the last few days, the Limerick-born artist Richard D James aka Aphex…

Run The Jewels – ‘Blockbuster Night Part 1’

After giving us a tantalising 100 second snippet, El-P and Killer Mike have dropped the…

Check out Unmade in Ireland’s musician photo essay site

A new site with an emphasis on photography portraits of upcoming musicians, Unmade in Ireland…

Download the free album from The Derevolutions

The Boston band The Derevolutions quietly self-released an album which is available for free recently.…

50 great tracks of 2014 so far

What follows is a list of 50 songs released so far this year that are…

Listen to a unreleased demo of Underworld’s ‘Cowgirl’

Underworld are re-releasing their seminal Dubnobasswithmyheadman album from 1994 as a 20th anniversary edition with…

Former Japanese Popstar goes synth-disco large as Sirkus Sirkuz with ‘Nothing Changes’

Decky Hedrock’s solo project Sirkus Sirkuz has been active since he left The Japanese Popstars.…

Pantha Du Prince to play Hidden Agenda’s new home in Opium Rooms

Hidden Agenda last week announced that they’ll be moving out of the Button Factory in…

Casa Bacardí announce Electric Picnic stage times and #TryStopMe winners

Casa Bacardi have sent out the stage times for their Electric Picnic area and announced…

Toro Y Moi returns as Les Sins with the bodymover ‘Bother’

Chaz Bundick has turned his attention to his dance music project Les Sins rather than…

Watch the last in the Trout Records video series featuring Jet Setter

Dublin indie-rock revivalists Jet Setter recently released a single on Any Other City Records called…

UNKNWN have a new music video and a Body & Soul EP mix

From Chris Hanna and Gemma Dunleavy’s recent EP as UNKNWN, ‘Bby’, an atmospheric ambient garage…

Listen to the retrofuturist 80s synth instrumental single from Haüer – ‘Merc II’

Haüer is a new Dublin artist who is preoccupied by the synthesizer sounds of the decade…

Fancy being the recipient of the Kevin Shields Music Production Scholarship?

BIMM Dublin has announced a Kevin Shields Music Production Scholarship which will allow one student…

Nils Frahm, Skream, Greg Wilson, Terri Hooley and more for Belfast RBMA weekender

Red Bull Music Academy is hosting an RBMA weekender in Belfast from 25th to the…